Biographical Information

Robert M. Miura (PhD Princeton, 1966) received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton University. He held postdoctoral positions at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and the Courant Institute at New York University. He has taught at New York University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of British Columbia, and currently is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematical Sciences and of Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His main research interests are in biological and physical applied mathematics. The areas in which he is currently conducting research include mathematical neuroscience, e.g., the modeling of cortical spreading depression in the brain, and the stretching of heated viscous fibres, e.g., formation of glass microelectrodes. He is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Canada, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Currently, he is the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Mathematical Biosciences Institute funded by the National Science Foundation and Ohio State University. He has served on several editorial boards, and presently is on the editorial boards of the Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly, the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, the SIAM Book Series on Mathematical Modeling and Computation, the SIAM Book Editorial Board, and is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Analysis and Applications. He was the Theme Leader for the Biomedical Theme of MITACS in 1998-2003, and was the Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on the Life Sciences in 2007-2008.